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Ahead of Satyajit Ray's 102nd Birth Anniversary on May 2, here are the filmmaker's famous friends and encounters. Ray and the violin maestro Yehudi Menuhin were also friends. They had caught up with each other in Bombay. Menuhin had seen a clutch of the master’s films.
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Driven to mediocrity, largely thanks to bureaucratic interference and apathy, the institution can be repurposed and revived.
Nayak in 1966. Through the 1970s and 1980s, Mitra conducted regular workshops at the Film and Television Institute in India. Just like Ritwik Ghatak had fired the minds of direction students in a previous generation, Mitra laid open the secrets of the camera for a new breed of technicians. They included Virendra Saini, Anil Mehta, KU Mohanan, Dilip Varma, Sunny Joseph and Anoop Jotwani, who would go on to become eminent cinematographers in their own right. “He was like an Impressionist painter who would concentrate on different tones on the face,” Virendra Saini said. “The background ...